Chapter 240 239. Zhou Yi is hated again
"Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou..."
Lei Shengjiang was comforted by Xiaobao for a long time before his emotions slowly calmed down, but when he thought of what Zhou Zhou said, he wanted to cry again.
He sobbed, "Zhou Zhou said, Brother Xiaobao, are you getting engaged?"
“…”
Xiaobao's face turned red in an instant.
He had a delicate and fair complexion, black hair and a jade crown, and exuded a refined and easygoing scholarly air, like a slender bamboo. However, a blush on his face, like peach blossoms shimmering on the snow, added a touch of spring.
"elder brother……"
Lei Shengjiang cried even harder upon seeing this, her tears falling like raindrops, her hands clutching Xiaobao's clothes, as if she was acting coquettishly, but also as if she was stubborn and didn't want him to leave.
"What's wrong……"
Seeing that Lei Shengjiang was not happy at all, but burst into tears instead, Xiaobao was at a loss and panicked for a moment.
He lowered his eyelashes slightly, hugged Lei Shengjiang and coaxed him softly. He finally coaxed him back to his senses. The howling turned into sobbing and hiccups.
He asked softly and carefully, "Does Ginger have someone else he likes?"
“No, no!”
Lei Shengjiang shook his head subconsciously, hiccuping and saying firmly, "I only like Brother Xiaobao! I like him the most! I don't like anyone else!"
"Only like me?"
"Um!"
Lei Shengjiang nodded heavily, his eyes misty with tears, looking pitifully at Xiaobao, whimpering like a puppy, "Brother, can you please not get engaged?"
“……?”
Xiaobao was confused.
Why do you like him but don't want to get engaged to him? Is it because you want to focus on your studies because you don't want to be distracted by it?
Xiao Bao expressed his doubts and gently comforted Lei Shengjiang, "There's no rush. Wait a few years - when you're older, you can get married right away."
After thinking about it, he blushed slightly and gently kissed Lei Shengjiang on the forehead.
Lei Shengjiang was completely dumbfounded.
He stared at Xiaobao blankly, covered the place where he was kissed blankly, and blinked his wet eyes blankly. After a while, he suddenly reacted.
"Brother Xiaobao...are you engaged to me?"
"Um."
Xiao Bao answered him softly with a nasal tone, and understood why Lei Shengjiang was so abnormal. He felt a little distressed and amused, "If he got engaged to someone else, Shengjiang would cry like a river."
"How can you cry so hard..."
Lei Shengjiang muttered softly with a blush on his face, his eyes sparkling, and he couldn't hide his happy smile at all. He was just about to announce his happiness to everyone.
"Brother Xiaobao is really engaged to me?"
"yes."
"I'm so happy~"
Lei Shengjiang giggled foolishly with a sweet tone, hugged brother Xiaobao's waist, buried his head in his arms, and acted like a cute puppy.
Xiaobao couldn't help laughing, and reached out to pat the puppy's head, thinking that his ginger really hasn't grown up yet, so it's naturally as cute as a puppy.
"But, Ginger, why do you think I'm engaged to someone else?"
"Zhou Zhou said so."
Lei Shengjiang remembered what his younger brother Lei Zhouzhou had said, and said angrily, "Zhouzhou said that Daddy and Daddy Miao are going to arrange a marriage for Brother Xiaobao, but they don't know who it's going to be with, so they told me to go home and stop you."
Lei Zhouzhou: “…”
He had just caught up with his brother and ran to the door of the house. He heard this sentence just as he stepped in. Feeling guilty, he silently withdrew his foot.
He turned away quietly, pretending that he had not returned home yet.
As he ran, he thought to himself that he should wait until his brother calmed down before coming back. If his brother was still angry, he would give today's snack to his brother.
...I'll give tomorrow's to my brother as well.
"Zhou Zhou probably didn't hear the whole story and got scared, so he went looking for Sheng Jiang."
Xiaobao spoke softly, saying something nice to Zhou Zhou, "Zhou Zhou is also worried and confused. Sheng Jiang, please don't be angry with Zhou Zhou, okay?"
"All right."
Lei Shengjiang nodded reluctantly.
"Ahem."
Lei Li propped up his cheek with one hand, a smile on his face. He watched the whole thing with a mischievous look before speaking, "Hey young couple over there, can you please pay a little attention to our feelings?"
"The misunderstanding has been resolved, but some crybaby is still clinging to his brother's arms and acting like a spoiled brat? Who keeps saying that he's an adult and can't act like a spoiled brat?"
Ever since Lei Shengjiang passed the examination to become a Tongsheng, he felt that he had grown up. He was no longer a big child, but a real adult, so he could no longer act like a spoiled child with his father.
Whenever Lei Li touched Lei Shengjiang's head and pretended to sigh that Shengjiang was not as cute as before and didn't act coquettishly with his father much anymore, Lei Shengjiang would feel embarrassed and say this seriously.
"oops!"
When Lei Shengjiang heard Lei Li's voice, he realized that the elders in the main hall were all staring at him and his brother Xiaobao, either covering their mouths and laughing or laughing out loud.
Daqiang's father gave him a thumbs-up and said, "Well done, Jiang! That's what a man should be like. If you like a guy, fight for him boldly. Don't let other guys get him for free!"
His father frowned, seemed to be very conflicted and embarrassed, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Lei Shengjiang didn't understand his father's expression, but he felt embarrassed to be looked at by his elders, so he stood up from Xiaobao's warm embrace and answered his father while puffing out his chest.
"Ginger is already a Tongsheng! Tongsheng means adults! Adults can also act like a spoiled child in the arms of the one they like!"
Lei Shengjiang said it with confidence. As for why he thought so—
When Master Cao was a student, he opened a private school to teach students and earn money. Later, he became a teacher in a school and was able to earn more money to support his family.
Then he can do it too!
Moreover, Lei Shengjiang felt that since Master Cao could do so well, he could also do well and become an adult who could do better and earn more than Master Cao.
He simply ignored the age of him and Master Cao. Master Cao was already married when he passed the examination for Tongsheng, but he was still an eleven-year-old struggling in the sea of learning, and he hadn't even confirmed his childhood marriage. He shamelessly said that Xiaobao was his future husband—
It can't be said that they are completely children.
During the Dayou Dynasty, fifteen years old was considered semi-adult, and people of all genders could marry. They were one of the main labor forces in the family and had the civil rights of adults.
Among them, boys and girls at the age of fifteen are called jigui, and boys at the age of fifteen are called shufa. They need to go to the government to serve three months of labor, and the punishment for committing crimes is the same as that of adults.
There is also a great scholar who said, "When you have tied your hair up, you will go to university, learn great arts, and observe great principles."
"But Ginger hasn't tied her hair yet."
Lei Li pretended to be distressed. "How can I be considered an adult without a hair tie? The law stipulates that only those over fifteen are adults, and Jiang is only eleven years old—"
Lei Li stretched out his voice.
"Twelve years old!"
Lei Shengjiang suddenly became anxious, fearing that his father would say he was too young and would not allow him to get engaged to Brother Xiaobao. "Shengjiang is twelve years old!"
"It's not my birthday yet."
"That's also twelve years old!"
Lei Shengjiang was not convinced but still felt strong. He counted on his fingers and said, "Dad said that one year old is counted as one year old when one is born, and another year old after the Chinese New Year. So I should be... thirteen years old!"
He is thirteen years old, only two years away from fifteen. In some villages and towns where people get married early, they can get married. But he is now engaged!
Zhou Yi: “?”
He was talking about the calculation of age based on virtual age, and in Sanlihe Village, at most, the age of a person is virtual, not two. Lei Shengjiang is only eleven and a half years old at most!
He just saw Sheng Jiang and Xiao Bao hugging each other, their expressions were very conflicted and hesitant. He felt that the eleven-year-old Sheng Jiang was still a child, and the nineteen-year-old Xiao Bao was not mature yet.
Nineteen years old is one year older than eighteen years old. In modern times, how can you be considered mature just because you are a freshman in college?!
Therefore, Zhou Yi was very opposed to the engagement of Sheng Jiang and Xiao Bao, but Lei Li rejected his opinion and enthusiastically discussed the engagement of the two children with Miao Fulang Zhang Daqiang.
Lei Li has always been an encouraging educator. When he heard Lei Shengjiang say that, he laughed and said, "Indeed, our Shengjiang is already a thirteen-year-old adult. He can call Xiaobao brother—oh no, he can't call him brother now."
"It should be said that Lei Shengjiang can be engaged to Miao Yurui. In a few years, they can pick an auspicious date, hold the wedding, and then marry into Yurui's family."
“…”
Xiaobao blushed when he heard this.
He knew that Uncle Li was just trying to make fun of him and Sheng Jiang, so he suggested marrying Sheng Jiang into his family.
Sheng Jiang wants to take the imperial examination and become an official in the future. If he marries into another family, he will be laughed at by his classmates and disliked by the examiners. Even if Father Li is willing, he cannot agree.
But when he looked at Sheng Jiang, the young boy's face flushed and his eyes were burning. He held his head high and chest out shyly and proudly, as if marrying into the Miao family was a great thing. He didn't have the noble principles of a man at all.
"You can get married as soon as you tie your hair at the age of fifteen. I will marry Yu Rui at the age of fifteen!"
Lei Shengjiang argued convincingly.
He still remembered that when he was eight years old, the guy surnamed Liu kept calling him Yu Rui and wanted Brother Xiaobao to marry him. Bah, Brother Xiaobao didn't like him!
But his inherent possessiveness and secret pettiness made him change his words and change the way he addressed himself from Xiaobao's brother to Yurui, vowing to marry her.
When Xiaobao heard Sheng Jiang call him Yu Rui, he was stunned at first, and then he felt awkward and ashamed, as if by changing the name, Sheng Jiang really turned from his childhood sweetheart into his little husband.
Little husband.
Xiaobao repeated the word subconsciously in his mind.
A young man who is eight years younger than him, has the best looks, the best education, and is devoted to him.
He suddenly felt an itch in his heart, and glanced at the ginger quickly and lightly. He then realized that he was embarrassed, and his ears and face were hot.
The laughter of Lei Li and his two fathers made Xiao Bao feel helpless. He was so embarrassed that he wanted to leave here immediately and find a place to hide.
And Zhou Yi: "..."
He stared at his own child in an indescribable manner. Seeing him raise his face as if to swear to the heavens to prove his firmness to Xiaobao, he felt speechless and his teeth ached.
After thinking about it again and again, he felt that he still could not accept it. Even if the average person in the Daiyou Dynasty died at the age of fifty, it was still too early to get married at the age of fifteen.
Ginger is still a child!
"no."
Zhou Yi said quietly, "Lei Shengjiang, you can't marry Xiaobao when you're fifteen."
"Father!"
Lei Shengjiang quit immediately and glared at his father angrily. If his father didn't give him a reasonable explanation, he would not recognize this annoying father.
Zhou Yi: “…”
I hate my dad again.
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